Stuff you have made today

[cianh91]

Made this for a friend for her fathers grave first time trying anything like this scales off but I’m happy with it and so is she

 

[Johnnybravo]

Eventually finished glueing together a random selection of stuff destined for a landfill . A flywheel,an old jack,a bit of scaffold pipe,a couple of old castors,a conrod,a part of an old brace and bit,a bit of plywood from a packaging case,bits of a camping mattress and an old leather jacket. Quite a random selection of tat repurposed into my height adjustable,steam punk inspired ,welding stool. Cost nothing but a bit of time,and it's really comfortable!!!

 

[Hood]

Made a Blackview BV6000 work again.
I was given a BV6000 because the microphone had packed up and it was about to be thrown in the bin, I was asked if I would like it for spares.
I decided to get a mic from eBay, cost me £3.98 inc post, supposedly a UK seller but it had a Chinese customs label on it but it got here in 4 days, ordered Monday night , arrived yesterday.

Anyway pretty chuffed with myself as it is quite small and my eyes are not what they used to be but I now have a spare, fully functioning BV6000.
4 contacts to solder and the extremeties of them are 2mm.

 

[Maker]

I made my laptop charger about 4 feet longer;

Just a length of speaker cable soldered and heatshrunk in place, twenty minute job I've been meaning to do for about four years.

(That pink hammer isn't mine! )

 

[Hood]

Of course it isn't

 

[slim_boy_fat]

(That pink hammer isn't mine! )

Yeah, we believe you

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

(That pink hammer isn't mine! )

And why not?

 

[Maker]

And why not?

Because it's a craft "hammer" made of enameled zinc.

 

[Mike Pinches]

Todays effort was a hedgehog cake

 

[Jlg]

I made my self wish I didn't offer to weld two small holes in the floor of a abarth punto

 

[Jlg]

I made my self wish I didn't offer to weld two small holes in the floor of a abarth punto

Would anyone guess that the two one inch. Holes turned into 7 holes one of which was over 2ft long 10 hours at it today and probably the same tomorrow the only thing that made me pack up tonight was a bit of hot spatter landing in my ear for the second time

 

[Johnnybravo]

^^
You will regret not finishing the welding on the Fiat tonight, as it will be worse tomorrow....!!M

 

[Jlg]

^^
You will regret not finishing the welding on the Fiat tonight, as it will be worse tomorrow....!!M

it was 10 pm when I gave up for the night and a 40 minute drive home so I had earned my quitting time

 

[Jlg]

On a nicer note I did this on Saturday pulled the top off changed the oil plugs and filter

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I got given this the other day,
I need one not, so it was going to be donated to a Men In Shed.




So I thought I best test it, give it a PAT and a clean.

But the blades would not fit securely, so a strip down was needed.




Found out the screw what is used to locate the blades was missing as well as a clip for the guide wheel.



Easy fit, just took time finding one.

So what did I make?
1 A mess when the tray of clips fell apart.
2 A screw, adapted from a old one in a pot of old power tool bits.



No lathe was to hand, so a bit of bodging was needed on the screw.
I blackened it by heating until it was showing a bit of Blue temper and then dipped it into linseed oil.

 

[Dieselman 63]

My first bowl. Immediately requisitioned by my mum. Fijian Kauri wood.

 

[DennisCA]

Some stick welds, 70 amps 2.5mm rod, 3 and 4mm thickness on the square tubing. I think this is th ebest stick welding joint I have made so far. I started out at 100 amps but that was too high, blew holes in the thinner wall tube when I tried doing an up hill pass, kept adjusting dowwards, maybe could have gone to 75A. They turned out nice though, and the welding machine is really nice to stick weld with, I can jam the electrode in real good and it won't give a damn, real hard to make the arc go out.

This I welded earlier at 100 amps, two passes, one root pass, just a straight stringer then a sort of weave.

I've done so little welding lately it feels like starting from zero again but towards the end it was going real well and I felt my skills improve.

 

[Chillitt]

 

[Dieselman 63]

Where’s the gravy though?

 

[brightspark]

Where’s the gravy though?

deffo not a Yorkshire man with no gravy